different between dugong vs walrus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Cebuano dugong.

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: doo??g?ng, IPA^(key): /?du???/
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: dyoo??g?ng, IPA^(key): /?dju????/

Noun

dugong (plural dugongs)

1. A plant-eating aquatic marine mammal, of the genus Dugong, found in tropical regions.

   Synonyms: sea cow, sea pig

Descendants

• ? Finnish: dugongi
• ? French: dugong
• ? Indonesian: dugong
• ? Italian: dugongo
• ? Malay: dugong
• ? Portuguese: dugongo
• Torres Strait Creole: dugong

Translations

See also

• manatee

Anagrams

• gun dog, gundog

Cebuano

Alternative forms

• dugung

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: du?gong

Noun

dugong

1. a dugong

Descendants

• ? English: dugong
  • ? Finnish: dugongi
  • ? French: dugong
  • ? Indonesian: dugong
  • ? Italian: dugongo
  • ? Malay: dugong
  • ? Portuguese: dugongo
  • Torres Strait Creole: dugong

French

Etymology

From English dugong, from Cebuano dugong.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dy.????/, /dy.???/

Noun

dugong m (plural dugongs)

1. dugong

Further reading

• “dugong” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Indonesian

Alternative forms

• duyung

Etymology

From English dugong, from Cebuano dugong.

Noun

dugong (first-person possessive dugongku, second-person possessive dugongmu, third-person possessive dugongnya)

1. dugong (Dugong dugon)

Synonyms

• babi duyung
• ikan duyung

Malay

Alternative forms

• duyung / ??????

Etymology

From English dugong, from Cebuano dugong.

Pronunciation

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /du?o?/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /du???/
• Rhymes: -u?o?, -?o?, -o?

Noun

dugong (Jawi spelling ??????, plural dugong-dugong, informal 1st possessive dugongku, impolite 2nd possessive dugongmu, 3rd possessive dugongnya)

1. dugong (Dugong dugon)

Synonyms

• babi duyung / ???? ??????
• ikan duyung / ???? ??????

Further reading

• “dugong” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English dugong, from Cebuano dugong.

Noun

dugong m (definite singular dugongen, indefinite plural dugonger, definite plural dugongene)

1. a dugong

References

• “dugong” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English dugong, from Cebuano dugong.

Noun

dugong m (definite singular dugongen, indefinite plural dugongar, definite plural dugongane)

1. a dugong

Tagalog

Noun

dugong

1. dugong

Torres Strait Creole

Etymology

From English dugong, from Cebuano dugong.

Noun

dugong

1. dugong, Dugong dugon

Synonyms

• dhangal (western dialect)

English

Etymology

Probably borrowed from Dutch walrus, a compound of wal (“whale”) and ros (“horse”). Displaced native Old English horshwæl (literally “horse whale”). Compare similar constructions in Danish hvalros, Old Norse hrosshvalr, and German Walross.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?w??l.??s/, /?w?l.??s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?w?l.??s/, /?w?l.??s/

Noun

walrus (plural walruses or walrus or walrusses or (both nonstandard, proscribed, uncommon) walri or walrii)

1. A large Arctic marine mammal related to seals and having long tusks, tough, wrinkled skin, and four flippers, Odobenus rosmarus.
   • 1887 — James W. Buel, Sea and Land, page 251.

     Of all the Phocine family none present so terrible and grotesque an appearance as the gigantic Walrus, also known as the morse and sea-horse.

Quotations

• For more quotations using this term, see Citations:walrus.

Synonyms

• morse (obsolete)
• sea horse (rare)

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• seal
• sea lion, sealion

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch walrus, probably from Danish hvalros or Swedish valross, from an inversion of Old Norse hrosshvalr (“horse-whale”).

Noun

walrus (plural walrusse)

1. walrus (Odobenus rosmarus)

Cebuano

Etymology

From English walrus, from Danish hvalros, an inversion of Old Norse hrosshvalr (literally “horse-whale”). The term may have entered English via Dutch walrus.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: wal?rus

Noun

walrus

1. a walrus (Odobenus rosmarus)

Dutch

Etymology

The origin of this word is not wholly certain, with several theories proposed. Probably borrowed from Danish hvalros or Swedish valross, from an inversion of Old Norse hrosshvalr (“horse-whale”). Equivalent to wal (“whale; large sea-animal”) +? ros (“horse”). The Old Norse word may, however, been a folk-etymological modification of Old Norse rossmal, related to Proto-Germanic *rusta-, from the rust colour of the animal. Preference for borrowing the inverted form could have been due to the influence of the already existing Dutch compound walvis (“whale”, literally “whale-fish”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???lr?s/
• Hyphenation: wal?rus

Noun

walrus m (plural walrussen, diminutive walrusje n)

1. walrus, any member of the family Odobenidae of which Odobenus rosmarus is the sole extant member

Derived terms

• walrussnor
• walrustand

Descendants

• Afrikaans: walrus

References